new tongue coral

[cdcq12]

i just bought a new tongue coral and i was looking at it and was wondering how i might go about fragging that?

[cdcq12]

I was curious, doesn't anybody know?

[Travis L. Stevens]

Think of it like an elongated Fungia.

[RRodrigues]

Hi,

You could just smash it against the floor and collect the small frags of it. Another way is use a table saw to cut it.

[cdcq12]

Really? Smashing would do the trick? I mean if I cut it would the two pieces just grow back to form tongue coral again, and if so how long would it take?

[thisisme]

i know a person that put a rubber band around the area he wanted to frag waited for the flesh to move (seperate) from the band exsposing the skeleton and just cut it with a dremel tool

[bwest]

When I fragged my larger piece of tongue coral I just simply took it in my hands and snapped it into 8 pieces. Then just placed them back in the tank. All of the pieces were fine.

[cdcq12]

How long did it take for them to grow back?

[bwest]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9655912#post9655912 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cdcq12
How long did it take for them to grow back?

Sorry it's been a while since I checked back here. How long for it to grow back to its original size? None of them have yet. I just wanted to be able to have some frags to give away/trade. In my experiences, LPS type corals are pretty slow growers. It's been about 4 months since I did it, and the pieces I have look very healthy, and eat everytime I feed them (pieces of silversides, mysis, etc)

[TIMMYE]

I would cut it with a tile wet saw filled with salt water.